Chicks cheeping loudly for unidentified reason

[nurschic]

OMG! My chicks went CRAZY when I took them outside and then placed them back into their brooder! They were chirping so loud and "fighting" more with one another. I tried to place them in their outside coop, but we lost electric and it was going to get in the 20's that night so I had to bring them back inside to their coop! They all let me know their dislike about my desicion!!! Once you give them their freedom, they sure dont like you to take it away!!!

 

[theawesomechick]

OMG! My chicks went CRAZY when I took them outside and then placed them back into their brooder! They were chirping so loud and "fighting" more with one another. I tried to place them in their outside coop, but we lost electric and it was going to get in the 20's that night so I had to bring them back inside to their coop! They all let me know their dislike about my desicion!!! Once you give them their freedom, they sure dont like you to take it away!!!

So true, that was the way with my first batch of chicks.

 

[JadedPhoenix]

My chicks are cheeping so loudly they can be heard through two doors and a wall. I don't know why, though, they have plenty of food, clean water, and they aren't cold, because they aren't huddling together. It's 65 degrees in their brooder and outside their brooder, so if they shouldn't be hot and if they are, there's not too much I can do about it. They should have enough space, since there are four chicks and about eight square feet of space. They seem to be trying to have an escape movement, since they are charging all the deer netting windows. They keep cheeping as loudly as they can (all four of them) and wandering around, perching on their things and randomly flying around. What's my problem here? They're driving the whole house insane!

If that is sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit, that is TOO COLD. Chicks should start off at 95 and go down 5 degrees each week.
Week one 95
Week two 90
Week three 85
Week four 80

EIGHTY DEGREES! Not sixty-five. You could probably get away with 75 since you said they are nearing week five but not sixty-five.

If they were cold, I'm sure I'd know, these are my second batch of chicks.

They are trying to let you know.

I've discovered the problem: the chicks don't like staying inside the brooder. I solved this by putting them outside in their playpen all day, then bringing them inside when the sun sets and draping towels over their brooder to induce them to sleep.

I'm sure that in the playpen, they have the added warmth of the sun and your house is warmer than 65 degrees. It wasn't the space, it was the temperature after all.

 

[theawesomechick]

They're happy in the playpen even when the sun starts setting and the temperature goes down to about 55 or so. I don't know what happened that night, but they haven't done it again. I just put them back in the brooder, then they do their last bit of snacking and settle down. Then I cover the brooder with towels as I mentioned before, and they go to bed. I don't stick strictly to the temperature formula for the chicks, because I think that the chicks are much tougher than we would like to, and do, believe.

 

[aart]

@JadedPhoenix chicks can be acclimated to lower temps much earlier than the 5 Degree a week 'rule'.

They will actually feather out faster if you keep the temps a little lower...a little cooler is actually a bit healthier for them.

I've got 2 day olds in a 65 degree room.....when they want warmed up they scramble under the heat plate and take a little nap.